Tim Worstall

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Ukraine, Uzbekistan, All the Same Place, Right?

September 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

This is why those journalists get paid the major bucks folks. Commenting upon Usmanov and the way in which his attempt to close down a few blogs has led to the story gaining new wind, Kevin Maguire tells us:

But in brief Usmanov hired fanatstically expensive London law firm Schillings to gag our former man in the Ukraine, Craig Murray, who wrote some very disobliging things about a businessman as touchy as he is rich.

It’s those multiple layers of editors and fact checkers that make the major media outlets so useful, nay, invaluable.

Tags: Newspaper Watch

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 JonT // Sep 21, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Hi Tim. What a priviledge er privelege er pleasure it is to be the first to leave a comment on your new blog.

  • 2 dearieme // Sep 21, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    I’ve seen that Maguire on the telly. Tit.

  • 3 dearieme // Sep 21, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    Modebloodyration, Tim?

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